In this wide-ranging book, historian Lester D. Langley offers a
fresh interpretation of the history of the modern Western
hemisphere since the mid-nineteenth century. He evaluates the
dynamics of hemispheric history, commencing with the articulation
of the " two Americas" (Theodore Roosevelt' s America and the
contrasting America described by Cuban revolutionary, essayist, and
poet Jose Marti ) and culminating with recent controversial efforts
to forge a united hemisphere.
Tracing the interactions and influences among the nations of South,
Central, and North America, including Canada, Langley departs from
other accounts of the past 150 years. He argues that the seedtime
for today' s Americas was not the Cold War but the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries. He also contends that it is not what
the countries and people of the Americas have in common that binds
them; instead, their cultural, political, and economic conflicts
tie them together. Comprehensive and balanced, this history of the
nations of the Americas offers new insights into both the past and
the future of inter-American relations.
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